Hi, I seem to have been experiencing the same symptoms as described in #467040 since the last squeeze upgrade done on 2009-12-31, which may be coupled with my kernel upgrade from 2.6.30.8 to 2.6.32 on 2009-12-14.
I've determined that I need to stop the hal daemon (with /etc/init.d/hal stop) and add Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" into the ServerFlags in xorg.conf, and that restores the keyboard to a working state. If I just keep the AllowEmptyInput option and start X with the hal daemon running, I can reproduce the problem. If I start hal again in the middle of the X session, and then immediately stop it again, the problem reappears and persists even though hal is not there. Eric, can you try that too? It's also messing with the mouse, some button clicks are ignored/duplicated. In my 2009-12-31 upgrade log, I see only these related packages: Preparing to replace hal 0.5.13-6 (using .../hal_0.5.14-1_amd64.deb) ... Preparing to replace x11-xserver-utils 7.4+2 (using .../x11-xserver-utils_7.5+1_amd64.deb) ... Previously I upgraded on 2009-12-16 and there I had: Preparing to replace hal 0.5.13-4 (using .../hal_0.5.13-6_amd64.deb) ... -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org